Are you one of your own coaching success stories yet?  We all know that coaching success stories are a valuable tool when enrolling new clients into your life coaching business.  But are we a living example of what is possible with coaching?  Is our life coaching business where we want it to be, or at least on the right path?  There are three things that can happen when we embark upon a new goal, and each has it’s own challenges.

To Grow Your Life Coaching Business You Will Have to Lose the Doubts

Life Coaching Business Threat #1:  Starting to doubt yourself.  When you start doing something outside your comfort zone all the systems in your brain start firing warning signs.  Danger!  You are about to change.  This is one of the most common threats to becoming a coaching success story.  You start doubting and stop taking action.  Your body relaxes knowing that you are safe from change.

Sabotaging Your Actions Will Not Help You Become One of the Coaching Success Stories

Life Coaching Business Threat #2:  You sabotage your actions.  Even if you continue on your path there will be a time when you just do something you will later look back on and wonder what you were thinking.  Why did you sabotage yourself, and why do you continue to do it?  Your limiting beliefs are again responsible for preventing yourself from becoming a coaching success story.

When You Decide Your Life Coaching Business is Fine the Way it is You Stop Growing

Life Coaching Business Threat #3:  You rationalize your success.  John Assaraf calls it “ration a lies.”  That is you starting thinking that you can be happy the way things are.  You don’t need to get to the next level.  This will keep you comfortably away from becoming a coaching success story.

So how does one navigate around these life coaching business threats?  Just like your clients, if you want to become a coaching success story you need to commit to being coached yourself.  That doesn’t mean having a friend work with you every once in awhile.  It means committing to ongoing coaching, especially when you don’t think you need it.

Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Bi-Designated Strategy and Accountability Coach